Krystal Sutherland

"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

Our chemical hearts

Chrissy Gray

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ~ Pablo Neruda

Paige hampson

‘ death is the reward for having lived’

(Red(which contained lots of Taylor swift))

Deea <3

A bittersweet story of friendship, first love and heartache, all rolled into one spellbinding tale. For fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and E. Lockhart. Film premiering on Amazon Prime on 21 August 2020 starring Lili Reinhart Henry Page, a hopeless romantic and film buff, is smitten as soon as Grace Town walks into his classroom. But Grace - who looks in need of a good bath, is dressed in guy's clothing, and walks with a cane - is unlike any leading lady he's ever obsessed over. And when Henry and Grace are both offered positions as editors of their high school newspaper, the mystery of Grace begins to captivate him. Why does she visit a graveyard every afternoon? What secret does she keep locked away in her bedroom? Above all, why is Grace Town so deeply sad? Henry is sure that he is the one to unlock her happiness. But Grace is capricious, changeable, infuriating, and, above all, damaged. Henry will need to be the strongest he has ever been to survive this particular love story.

as seen on Amazon Prime

Our Chemical Hearts

Kelly Perez

John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the slo-mo, heart palpitating, can't-eat-can't-sleep kind of love that he's been hoping for just hasn't been in the cards for him—at least not yet. Instead, he's been happy to focus on his grades, on getting into a semi-decent college and finally becoming editor of his school newspaper. Then Grace Town walks into his first period class on the third Tuesday of senior year and he knows everything's about to change. Grace isn't who Henry pictured as his dream girl—she walks with a cane, wears oversized boys' clothes, and rarely seems to shower. But when Grace and Henry are both chosen to edit the school paper, he quickly finds himself falling for her. It's obvious there's something broken about Grace, but it seems to make her even more beautiful to Henry, and he wants nothing more than to help her put the pieces back together again. And yet, this isn't your average story of boy meets girl. Krystal Sutherland's brilliant debut is equal parts wit and heartbreak, a potent reminder of the bittersweet bliss that is first love.

Ryan 

Jade Lexi

** spoiler alert **
           My gods. I had this book in my shelf for YEARS. Seriously. I lent it to my sister, to my friend just because I didn’t felt like reading it yet. And I kinda regret that. I have SOOOOOOO many pages that were bookmarked and sentences/dialogues underlined because I just find a lot of these words important. So many moments that felt so important to me. It gave me paper towns and all the bright places vibes at the first chapters BUT OH BOY. I’m kinda happy it didn’t end like those because I’m kinda sick from reading similar endings and stuff. I LOVE HENRY PAGE SO MUCH because I see myself in him in the most littlest ways. I, too, loved someone so much that it had destroyed me every time we were together. It breaks my heart to see Henry be like that for Grace. I got frustrated with Grace Town, too, because this girl has some serious issues and I HATE SEEING HENRY HURT LIKE THIS. 

Anyway, this book was super worth it. I can’t say I LOVE this book because it didn’t really break my heart that much, I WANT A BOOK THAT WOULD LITERALLY SHATTER ME.

Melissa Palmer

Book #62 Read in 2016
Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland

Grace Town is the new girl in Henry Page's school and he is drawn to her instantly. Little does he know that she is still healing--physically, mentally, emotionally--from the car accident which killed her boyfriend. Even though Henry knows it won't end well, he pursues Grace to begin a romantic relationship. Fans of John Green will love this book. It is full of teenage angst. I received a copy of this book from Amazon Vine in exchange for a honest review.

A Química dos Nossos Corações

joana

Meh. Já li este livro há 1 ano e tal, e como não foi muito marcante, não me lembro de absolutamente nada da história, sem ser a parte de que o final não me deixou satisfeita. A meu ver, é um livro bom para quem está a começar a ler!

John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the slo-mo, heart palpitating, can't-eat-can't-sleep kind of love that he's been hoping for just hasn't been in the cards for him--at least not yet. Instead, he's been happy to focus on his grades, on getting into a semi-decent college and finally becoming editor of his school newspaper. Then Grace Town walks into his first period class on the third Tuesday of senior year and he knows everything's about to change. Grace isn't who Henry pictured as his dream girl--she walks with a cane, wears oversized boys' clothes, and rarely seems to shower. But when Grace and Henry are both chosen to edit the school paper, he quickly finds himself falling for her. It's obvious there's something broken about Grace, but it seems to make her even more beautiful to Henry, and he wants nothing more than to help her put the pieces back together again. And yet, this isn't your average story of boy meets girl. Krystal Sutherland's brilliant debut is equal parts wit and heartbreak, a potent reminder of the bittersweet bliss that is first love.

Lynn

Witty, dark, personal and truthful. This book has a little bit of all of it. A super quick YA read that genuinely made me laugh and shed a tear. Maybe even more important: VERY quotable. Loved it - can’t wait to see if the movie did it justice.

Unsere verlorenen Herzen

Jacqueline Englund

(Read in German)
This was one of the most rawest and realest YA love stories I have ever read...this was beautiful, sad, frustrating and hopefully all at the same time. I cried, I laughed and I fell in love with these characters.

Maud Ortalda

Quand Henry rencontre Grace, il est persuadé qu’elle est l’amour de sa vie. Malheureusement pour lui, la jeune fille n’est pas prête à lui ouvrir son cœur…

Henry Page rêve du grand amour. Jusqu’au jour où il rencontre Grace, qui marche avec une canne et porte des vêtements de garçon trois fois trop grands pour elle. Henry tombe sous le charme de cette drôle de fille. Il a vite fait de comprendre que quelque chose en elle est cassé.

Il ne demande qu’à l’aider. Mais Grace a un lourd passé...

Nos coeurs en désaccord

Loéva 

Maybe you already heard about the book "all the bright places" and in fact when I read it five years ago, my heart was reduce in little tiny pieces and no books until this days make me feel the same. Until Our chemical hearts. I've cried, laughed, and smiled all my reading, my heart is touched by all of his words. I can't really say why, but my heart cry right now, and I am thankfull for that, because I realized what I didn't realize yet. About love and all the scientifics facts. ( In fact I already known about, but my brain doesn't accepted this until now) I don't know how to talk about this book, but anyway, thank you, thank you for writing Our Chemical Hearts and thank you for writing A semi Definive list of nightmare Yours books are a light in my life now and i'm thankfull for that.

Sienna Nobile

3.5 Stars. After reading House of Hollow, i expected this novel to be the same - but it wasn’t. What it was was an insight into the real kind of love teenagers experience and the real kind of heartbreak that comes with it.

Ary Dias 

Não é um livro excelente, é mediano, mas gostei bastante e não posso deixar de dizer que aprendi com ele.

"Todos devemos enfrentar a escolha entre o que é certo e o que é fácil. Ler Harry Potter é o que é correto"

Emelie

Jihad Mahmoud

it left me confused and speechless with both good and bad ways !!

Yari Chu Luo

“Stories with happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet.”

Debbi

I’m not sure if anybody felt this way but I had multiple chills when I read this book. The writing is wonderful. The characters are perfect. Extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary. I’m really excited to watch the movie when it releases in August. Looking forward to reading the author’s second book.

arwa 

“Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.” 
This book was such a good read, it was thought provoking and emotional and i loved it and think it had such important topics that were so well written

Shan

This was like a John Green book. I loved the depth of the characters and the metaphors

Inga Kühn 

Den ersten Stern bekommt dieses Buch für die vielen nerdigen Bemerkungen und Verweise auf Fandoms, die mir ebenfalls am Herzen liegen. Den Zweiten gab es für die Abbildung einer sehr witzigen PowerPoint. Den letzten hat mir Henry abgerungen. (Diese fiktiven Henrys werden langsam zu einer Schwäche von mir.) 
Grace konnte ich von Anfang an nicht leiden, unter anderem, weil sie absolut keine Wertschätzung für ihre Mitmenschen, deren Handlungen und ihre Umwelt zu haben schien. Die Handlung strotze vor Stereotypen, mit den 2 17-jährigen Helden, die doch schon so viel reifer und erwachsener sind, eine wunderbar traurige Liebesgeschichte voller vorhersehbare Plottwists haben und am Ende schöne Lehren aus ihrem Leben ziehen.
Meine letzte Anmerkung zu diesem Buch geht an die Cover-Designer: Wirklich?!

Ariel

A fun and enchanting book. Beautifully describes the spiral that is a “first love”.
I really appreciate the witty and ironic banter and the writing style was clever and engaging. 

Favorite quote: 
“Because I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, but quickly turn into a symphony carved across your skin; a hymn in the web of your veins; a harmony stitched into the lining of your soul.”

Efectos colaterales del amor

Diana Armenta 

Muy bien para ser sinceros pensé que había perdido el tiempo con éste libro, pero la verdad después de varias páginas finalmente lo entendí. No es una novela, no es una gran historia de amor, es una historia de la vida... Uno nunca sabe de quién se va a enamorar y aveces nos enamoramos de la idea que tenemos de la otra persona, no de la persona en sí. Pienso que este libro sí vale la pena leerlo porque como dice Krystal Sutherland, "el amor tiene consecuencias". 

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras, secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma". -Pablo Neruda.

Chrissy

uhh this is just barely a 3 for me, the last 15% of the book is the reason, i need time to think.
2.75 stars my final answer.
I really didn't enjoy this book that much, its a sad story and I can see how some may really enjoy it but I was just frustrated by both the main characters. It has insta love and I did not like it whatsoever. I was frustrated by Henry and his sudden obsession with Grace. I didn't understand where the intrigue was and why he needed to peruse her. I didn't like the way Grace strung him along knowing what she was doing and did it anyway. I get that Grace has been through a tragedy that I cannot even imagine but her life situation was so unique and awkward to read as Henry learned it and i felt so bad for him but i was just so mad at Grace. 
The ending did a nice job of talking about love and loss and Henry coming to terms with the relationship he had with Grace. I appreciated her finally talking to Henry and explaining everything to him and how he was there for her and didn't hate her. But I still cannot forgive what she did to him and I just felt bored and annoyed throughout the whole book. There's not much else I can say without giving away too many big plot points.

Jessica Williamson

Update March 2021 - Yep. Still love it. There are so many beautiful things here. The end of this book still gets me!

Update 2020 - I still love this dang book! The last quarter was even better the second time around! 

4.5 Stars

I know it's cliche to say it, but I think this book may have changed my life. It definitely caused a change in my soul. 

Sutherland's writing is so quirky and eye-catching, the way she writes things, the heart that goes into the words. It's well said, well thought. Relatable, OH SO relatable. Those of us who have loved, whether at the right or the wrong time, will always find a piece of themselves in this work.

I won't say the plot was the most surprising thing I've ever read. The "twists" were easily guessed. But they were exactly what this story needed. It needed all of it, to become this grand piece it now is. 

Henry is what I'd assume is a typical teenage boy. It's been 12+ years since I've spent any significant amount of time with one to know for sure, but he seems about right. And you can't help but relate to him on his level. We've all been through high school, falling for someone so hard you couldn't think straight. We've forgotten the things that were most important to us. There's this line about how he figures you can never truly know yourself until you've loved someone. It's so accurate. There are so many facets of what makes us who we are, and how we love is one of the most important ones. 

Muz and La. Two eccentric characters who brought humor and heart to this story. Henry's friends moved the story in the direction it needed to go in, while at the same time, showing you other stages of teenage love. They both went through good and bad stages of relationships during this story and it managed to put a normal feeling to it all.

Grace. There's so much I'd like to say about Grace but I honestly feel like her story is better learned about from the narrative itself. To let her speak for herself.

Sadie. She's a side character, sure, but her conversation at the end of this book warrants a mention here. The author's notes suggest that Sadie's character was based on a neuroscientist from Yeshiva University named Lucy Brown. Sadie's career (her adult one, not her stint as a teenage delinquent) lends so much to the end of this book.

In the end, it was the talks that got me. Talks about the science behind love. Of how our bodies are given back to the universe once we die. How sometimes, ghosts are more real than you think. 

Yeah. Much like Sutherland's A SEMI-DEFINITIVE LIST OF WORST NIGHTMARES, I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.

Sterrenstof

Sanne 

laura

I really liked this book! It was chock full of pop culture stuff especially harry potter stuff made me laugh out loud. Henry stole my heart throughout the novel. I was not crazy invested in the romance but i love what happen to the characters. A very unique Ya romance

Our chemical hearts

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